tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.comments2020-05-12T03:05:40.054+10:00Community Action for Sustainable Transport Inc.Community Action for Sustainable Transporthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09468177032721490465noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-39345589451494667322010-02-15T00:20:04.207+10:002010-02-15T00:20:04.207+10:00And paper tickets holders don&#39;t have to go thr...And paper tickets holders don&#39;t have to go through the trouble of needing to update details, like what happened to me as Translink especially their website couldn&#39;t do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-14066050859394918862010-02-02T01:08:00.853+10:002010-02-02T01:08:00.853+10:00Excellent list! Many members of the public are not...Excellent list! Many members of the public are not aware of this information and are being misled by the propaganda being walloped out via the media by TransInfo. Grassroots action sites like this are great for ensuring the truth is more widely available and accessible to the public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-18353692770299105102009-06-22T03:11:33.918+10:002009-06-22T03:11:33.918+10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.transport srbijahttp://www.kandid-transport.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-25211060172648911222009-05-06T11:21:00.000+10:002009-05-06T11:21:00.000+10:00Please have your say with this transport improveme...Please have your say with this transport improvement plan survey -http://lethallynx.com/survey/index.php?sid=15612Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-12403791133479529772009-05-05T09:45:00.000+10:002009-05-05T09:45:00.000+10:00i got many informations after visiting to your si...i got many informations after visiting to your site...pauladams.info@gmail.comjohnmckenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14529116507228649368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-15900496661573963772009-04-08T14:33:00.000+10:002009-04-08T14:33:00.000+10:00I recently came across your blog and have been rea...I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Ruth<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://laptopmessengerbag.info" REL="nofollow">http://laptopmessengerbag.info </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-77012407678926656182009-01-28T11:31:35.647+10:002009-01-28T11:31:35.647+10:00I won't really use the new services, but I like ho...I won't really use the new services, but I like how Translink is moving towards pre-pay services. This will speed up trips dramatically...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-49262964240863738042008-11-28T12:40:00.000+10:002008-11-28T12:40:00.000+10:00The dangers for urban users of two wheeled transpo...The dangers for urban users of two wheeled transport come principally from drivers of four wheeled vehicles - resulting in a vicious cycle of people being forced to use their cars because they’re too frightened to switch to two wheels.<BR/><BR/>To reduce road congestion, oil dependency, and the population's carbon footprint the mantra of policy makers should be "two wheels good - four wheels bad".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-44591367131992734032008-11-26T03:19:00.000+10:002008-11-26T03:19:00.000+10:00Two wheeled motor bikes are prone to accident and ...Two wheeled motor bikes are prone to accident and hence unsafe. These should not be promoted as an alternative of public transport.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-54864628000562888802008-11-11T10:10:00.000+10:002008-11-11T10:10:00.000+10:00Good post.Good post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-52507475831187070052008-11-05T19:10:00.000+10:002008-11-05T19:10:00.000+10:00thanks for the informative article. I don't unders...thanks for the informative article. I don't understand why a "transportation corridor" has to be for cars and trucks in reality. This track has great potential for a public and active transport corridor that maintains the environment or important habitat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-42208946043595522552008-09-02T01:05:00.000+10:002008-09-02T01:05:00.000+10:00Thought you guys should know, the facebook group f...Thought you guys should know, the facebook group for the petition is gaining some serious steam. http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=22329524241&amp;ref=nfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-20339781543139966662008-08-07T00:05:00.000+10:002008-08-07T00:05:00.000+10:00We do have forums and meetings.Of course we're com...We do have forums and meetings.<BR/><BR/>Of course we're committed to the sustainable transport agenda.<BR/><BR/>Our members are involved directly in policy making.<BR/><BR/>You are wrong that our agenda has already been adopted by government.<BR/><BR/>This is untrue on the local, state and federal level.Community Action for Sustainable Transporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468177032721490465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-47401682149894995502008-08-03T21:15:00.000+10:002008-08-03T21:15:00.000+10:00If this is a community group, about community issu...If this is a community group, about community issues, then shouldn't you have a forum in which the community can discuss these issues? All you have here is a blog for posting the organisations own opinions and news.<BR/><BR/>If you are grass-roots group of residents (and activists!), then why are all of you committed to one agenda? Why aren't there differing viewpoints instead?<BR/><BR/>And why is it an agenda which is being adopted everywhere else in the world? Did it come from the SE Qld or not?<BR/><BR/>Why is there a group with the same name and agenda in Cairns as the SEQ grass-roots group?<BR/><BR/>The same agenda is being adopted by our governments, so what is the purpose of your group? You are lobbying for an agenda our governments have already adopted, and which our mass-media promotes.<BR/><BR/>Is the purpose of your group really just to make us think it is our idea, and for our benefit? Either that, or "residents" everywhere all had the same idea at the same time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-47231794344425874132008-07-27T02:41:00.000+10:002008-07-27T02:41:00.000+10:00Good to see more activity on the blog. Just a note...Good to see more activity on the blog. Just a note, the link to the letter is broken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-89159245855201152222008-07-18T21:39:00.000+10:002008-07-18T21:39:00.000+10:00Aircraft will not need to go nuclear, but I see th...Aircraft will not need to go nuclear, but I see that you are perpetuating the same old myths about nuclear power. Do you even know what a "meltdown" is?<BR/><BR/>Nuclear power plants don't explode (except if there is a chemical explosion in the plant, as at Chernobyl.) It is impossible to have a nuclear explosion with nuclear material with the enrichment level used to generate power. Weapons material is far more highly enriched for that purpose.<BR/><BR/>A meltdown is merely an overheating of the fuel, which results in it merely melting within it's container.<BR/><BR/>There are more security and safety measures in nuclear plants (by regulation) than they would ever need, which is one of the reasons they are so expensive to build.<BR/><BR/>The shields around them can withstand a jet plane crashing into one. The Soviets considered them so safe they didn't bother to build shields, but it would have contained the Chernobyl blast.<BR/><BR/>You'd need a truck to carry the fuel out of the plant in it's ten-tonne container.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-17319970793249331072008-07-18T21:37:00.000+10:002008-07-18T21:37:00.000+10:00Restructuring society on the massive scale that "s...Restructuring society on the massive scale that "sustainable development" advocates talk about will involve a lot more than building some more roads, and so cost many times more.<BR/><BR/>Fuel prices are not going up due to scarcity. There is no scarcity. It's fairly common knowledge that those prices are being dictated by the producers.<BR/><BR/>"Peak Oil" was devised by an employee of Shell Oil on a paper napkin during a lunch break in 1956. He predicted the peak to occur around 1970, and today's advocates, 38 years later, are still predicting it about the same number of years from now.<BR/><BR/>Have you not noticed that the government is falling over itself to install sustainable development? We even have a minister for it. Almost nothing but is being promoted and discussed in the mass media. I never know when I'm reading a green pamphlet or a Murdoch newspaper. They are just doing it in a reserved manner so as not to alarm the non-alarmists.<BR/><BR/>That's why we have a minister for it - McNamara. Why would he say what you said unless his government meant it? Why would he and his department be there at all?Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-73820789466998914932008-06-14T22:32:00.000+10:002008-06-14T22:32:00.000+10:00If the HSL bridge continues from Cordelia and Meri...If the HSL bridge continues from Cordelia and Merivale Streets, how does this affect West End? These streets run through South Brisbane.<BR/><BR/>William Jolley Bridge already connects with these streets in the same area. All HSL will do is take traffic which now crosses via William Jolley to Milton instead of the City.<BR/><BR/>I don't see why there would be any more "rat-running" through West End than there is now due to the existing routes.<BR/><BR/>If traffic can bypass the City, it will relieve congestion, speed up traffic and thus reduce emsissions in the City (which also drifts into surrounding areas).<BR/><BR/>Living that close to the City, residents should expect some imcreased development and road use in their suburbs. They can't expect to have the convenience of proximity to the City as well as a country town environment.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-55110162863550925212008-05-30T18:55:00.000+10:002008-05-30T18:55:00.000+10:00Note that Lesley doesn't bother to answer my criti...Note that Lesley doesn't bother to answer my criticisms. That's because this isn't really a topic for community debate. I know of no forum in which it is discussed.<BR/><BR/>Note also the hostility and ridicule of Lesley's response; his offense at the very idea of disagreement or complaint. His opinion - popular opinion - is right by default. It doesn't need to be discussed.<BR/><BR/>This by itself raises worrying questions about where it will take us.<BR/><BR/>Because I'm one of the people who still do "have a grip", I am worried about the rush toward the monopolisation of our means of travel in a communal form.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-70934669795703712732008-05-27T17:25:00.000+10:002008-05-27T17:25:00.000+10:00What is the logic behind your own comment, Leslie?...What is the logic behind your own comment, Leslie? How would everyone travelling by car choke the roads and exponentially increase travel time?<BR/><BR/>I also am talking about *everybody's* travel time when I talk about public transport. <BR/><BR/>You are probably thinking that every time new road is laid out people find new reasons and more time to drive in their allotted 16 hours a day; or that the population automatically increases in response. I don't see how either follow.<BR/><BR/>All we need is enough roads; something our government hasn't provided for twenty years now - which is the reason for the congestion.<BR/><BR/>Say we make public transport as easy as you think it will be. Wouldn't the same "logic" apply? People would travel "just for the ease of it" - if they can find no other reason - and the buses, trains, bicycle paths and foot paths would become crowded, necessitating thew need for more buses, more roads and bike and foot paths and so on "exponentially".<BR/><BR/>The trains, buses, footpaths and train stations are choked *now*. What will it be like when everyone starts using them?<BR/><BR/>Roads don't just keep increasing until there is nothing else left. We still need places - buildings etc - to travel to and from on the roads. If buildings start disappearing to make way for roads, the need for roads decreases.<BR/><BR/>Get a grip, Leslie.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-44273285448519377122008-05-24T21:23:00.000+10:002008-05-24T21:23:00.000+10:00And if everyone adopted your idea and always used ...And if everyone adopted your idea and always used a car, *everybody's* drive time would increase just about exponentially since the roads would be choked. Get a grip and use some logic, Allan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-82326981244976414522008-05-04T16:03:00.000+10:002008-05-04T16:03:00.000+10:00Car-free Diary entry 4 May 2008This will make you ...Car-free Diary entry 4 May 2008<BR/><BR/>This will make you laugh. I wanted to go to the Tour Day at the new King George Square northern link centre. I got there just as it closed at about 2:10 pm. I left my home in Auchenflower at about 1:20 pm. It took that long - 50 minuntes - because I travelled by bus. Or would have if it came at the right time. I actually walked.<BR/><BR/>I didn't know whether the bus had gone five minutes early (which it did do earlier this week - it passed me as I walked to the stop) or it was late or didn't go at all. I didn't see it pass as I walked in, so I guess it didn't.<BR/><BR/>This is the problem when someone else is doing the driving.<BR/><BR/>By the way, in the 5 minutes I wait for a bus, I can drive this distance in a car.<BR/><BR/>If they do manage to schedule all the buses to run every 5 minutes, will we really be waiting 10 - 15 minutes and have two or three turn up at once, which sometimes happens now? A more frequent schedule will give them an excuse to be sloppier with following the schedule.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-38671790703046881992008-04-26T19:53:00.000+10:002008-04-26T19:53:00.000+10:00Car(e) Free Diary entry, Sat. 26-4-08A week ago I ...Car(e) Free Diary entry, Sat. 26-4-08<BR/><BR/>A week ago I took my PC and printer to a repair shop in the City. I had to carry both of them to the bus stop and then load them onto a bus.<BR/><BR/>Thank God I don't have a car - then I would have missed out on some exercise - including weights. What a benefit.<BR/><BR/>Today I picked them up from the shop. I decided to make two round trips this time and take each item seperately. This meant a relaxing wait for each bus I caught - four waits. This only took up only a couple of hours of my weekend. Mmm.<BR/><BR/>Again, if I'd had a car, I would have had to rush instead of taking it easy.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-5657849544147428652008-03-23T11:12:00.000+10:002008-03-23T11:12:00.000+10:00The only objection I have concerning 4WDs is that ...The only objection I have concerning 4WDs is that so many people spend above their means (go into debt) on unnecessary goods. Careless and unnecessary spending in this way harms our collective financial situation as a nation.<BR/><BR/>4WDs may serve for some people a similar function as a station wagon, ute or van. It is not necessary to have 4WD for most such purposes, but there is little difference in the size of vehicle. For some it may be a work or business vehicle. Some people use them for off-road recreational purposes.<BR/><BR/>For these people, using 4WDs also for normal travel may be the economical choice, since the alternative is to pay for the purchase, registration and maintenance of two vehicles.<BR/><BR/>Penalising these people with higher rego fees could just discourage them further from buying an additional, regular car for on-road travel. It would also be unfair to them - particularly if it is for work/business use.<BR/><BR/>Which is worse "environmentally" anyway - consuming more fuel and producing more emissions, or using more resources to manufacture more vehicles?<BR/><BR/>Many SUVs are quite small (e.g. RAV-4s) and are the size of an average car anyway. Even some bigger 4WDs (e.g. Toyota Hilux) have only 4-cyinder engines. A Falcon or Commodore has a 6 engine.<BR/><BR/>Government policy should be to stay out of people's private affairs so we can make the right choices for ourselves.Bunco Squadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04226992705816696072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38605679.post-69578631044855643542008-03-14T13:15:00.000+10:002008-03-14T13:15:00.000+10:00I agree and think a carbon tax at registration tim...I agree and think a carbon tax at registration time should be paid to help reduce the desire for heavy vehicles.National Enquirerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785280851508303815noreply@blogger.com